Word: biding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mughniyah seems content to bide his time until the U.S. breaks. But he has not tired of finding ways to press Hizballah's confrontation with the West. Britain's Guardian newspaper reported last month that he was busy organizing mass demonstrations in Lebanon. The cause: demanding Salman Rushdie's death for writing The Satanic Verses...
Having established league superiority by mid-January with an imposing 13-0 ECAC record, the Crimson was able to bide its time for the remainder of the season. Dreams of the national crown it came so close to earning last March played in its head...
...counselors say that members of this year's class have displayed an optimism about career opportunities which sets them apart from other recent Harvard graduates--an optimism that has allowed seniors to bide their time before jumping headlong into traditional career paths...
Because, unlike Harvard, which can only bide time until the end of the season, Cornell is embroiled in a title race...
...many women just bide their time in prison, Ellertson says. "It's really difficult. There's no authorized outlet for anger. You can't write a letter to the head guard. Well, you can, but it won't do anything." Moreover, Ellertson says that the problem with the prisons is that they don't rehabilitate people. "They seem to tear up future generations by separating these women from their families. The damage these women do to society as prostitutes and abusing drugs is much less than the damage they do to themselves...